Re: Energy - efficient features on Aruba Switches

‎05-06-201306:49 AM

Carlos,

We have not done an official study on this but it is a great idea. We do publish the AP power power consumption values (on their respective datasheets) and while this is typically the maximum needed when serving clients, I typically see our APs at least draw 5 watts (if not more) when idle. If a customer is using X number of APs, you could tell them that when the WiFi is not needed, they would save X*5-watts if they used time of day PoE profiles. Additionally, you could also use time of day PoE profiles for other PoE devices like IP phones in non-critical areas.

You can always verify the PoE load on a Mobility Access Switch using "show poe controller" for the aggregate PoE consumption or "show poe interface brief" for a port by port display of PoE consumption.

Re: Energy - efficient features on Aruba Switches

‎05-06-201308:21 AM

Hello

Thanks for the reply

I was looking this because i would like to show the client something like this

Like in a year you could be saving x ammount of money in power if you use ArubaSwithes instead cisco switches for example as you can turn off the APs automnatically and turn them on again for example turn of at 10pm and turn them on again at 6am.

If i can tell them with Money numbers then they would understand... if i just tell them they would save energy they would just not consider this as they would think well i dont think its a lot of money so i dont care.